ra.vah denotes becoming or making people, goods, actions, or knowledge more numerous or abundant.

The supplied verses most often use this verb for an increase in quantity or extent, whether an abundance of goods, a greater degree, or an enlarged result. It also describes people, offspring, days, and knowledge becoming more numerous, and it can portray the deliberate increase of actions such as transgression, guilt, or harlotry.

1. Increase in abundance or degree · dominant

   Hiphil infinitive-absolute forms occur where the clause depicts an especially large amount or greater extent: in 1 Kings 10:10 the APB renders a "very great quantity" of spices, and in 2 Kings 21:16 it renders bloodshed as "so much" that Jerusalem was filled. In 2 Samuel 18:8, the Hiphil sequential imperfect sets the forest's toll against that of the sword, which the APB renders as "more" people devoured by the forest.

   1 Kings 10:101 Kings 10:112 Kings 21:162 Samuel 18:82 Chronicles 25:91 Samuel 26:21
2. Become numerous in people, offspring, or duration · common

   Qal forms describe an increase in living groups and their descendants: in Exodus 1:7 the APB renders the sons of Israel as having "multiplied" and become exceedingly numerous, while 1 Chronicles 23:17 concerns Rehabiah's sons. The same pattern applies to time in 1 Samuel 7:2, where the days increase until they reach twenty years, and to knowledge in Daniel 12:4.

   Exodus 1:7Exodus 1:201 Chronicles 23:171 Chronicles 5:231 Samuel 7:2Daniel 12:4
3. Cause actions, possessions, or results to increase · common

   Hiphil clauses portray an agent increasing a stated object or outcome. In Exodus 7:3, the first-person form concerns signs and wonders in Egypt; in Ezekiel 11:6, the second-person plural perfect concerns slain people filling the city's streets. The imperative in Amos 4:4 addresses the increase of transgression, while Ezekiel 23:19 depicts increased fornication.

   Exodus 7:3Ezekiel 11:6Amos 4:4Ezekiel 23:192 Chronicles 33:23Deuteronomy 17:16
4. Increase through growth, enlargement, or repeated activity · occasional

   Several clauses focus on an expanding result without specifying a population total. In 1 Chronicles 4:10, the Hiphil sequential perfect occurs in Jabez's request concerning an enlarged border; in Ezekiel 16:7, the Qal sequential imperfect accompanies growth to maturity. In 1 Samuel 1:12, the Hiphil perfect stands in the clause that the APB renders "continued to pray."

   1 Chronicles 4:10Ezekiel 16:71 Samuel 1:12Ezekiel 19:2Ezekiel 24:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the verb with such expressions as "multiplied," "increase," "very great quantity," "much," "more," and "continued." These renderings confirm the clauses' overall quantitative or extensive force rather than establishing a separate English equivalent for every form.